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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That's great, I'm all for getting more women into real front line roles, 50% of our population are being wasted, we could have a much better female representation than the current poltry 15.5% that make up the ADF and thus a bigger professional fighting force. Forget the admin support roles though, I mean real front line roles, like infantry, artillery, pilots, submariners, naval ship officers etc
Having said that I always find it disappointing that we don't see similar gender biased recruitment drives to get more men into nursing, child care, primary school and early childhood teaching etc, all dominated by women and screaming out for more men....oh well.
Mike
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That is exactly what most defence personnel say. We would love to see more women in our ranks (they are very good at dealing with civilians on overseas deployments, especially in cultures that don't allow non-related men to speak to women), but only those who get there by merit, and not by excluding others.
It looks like part of the PC war on men, rather than any actual attempt to improve the defence force.